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When Mariko Ferronato was 3 years old, she would regularly quiz her mother about which half of her was white and which was Japanese. "I thought there was a physical line that divided the Japanese me from the Caucasian me," says Ferronato, now 18 and a high school senior. A soccer goalie who plays the violin and has her eye on pre-med studies, Ferronato says her racial identity developed in stages. At her mostly white elementary school, she considered herself a white person "who happened to eat a lot of sticky rice." But in the ninth grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sacramento: Where Everyone's a Minority | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...took time--and a feeling of not quite belonging at an Asian students' club--for Ferronato to finally realize that she is neither Japanese nor white. She is both. "Now I believe in the theory of hybrid vigor," she says. "A specimen derived from two different species has the strongest traits of both sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sacramento: Where Everyone's a Minority | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...took time-and a feeling of not quite belonging at an Asian students' club-for Ferronato to finally realize that she is neither Japanese nor white. She is both. "Now I believe in the theory of hybrid vigor," she says. "A specimen derived from two different species has the strongest traits of both sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to America's Most Diverse City | 8/25/2002 | See Source »

...When Mariko Ferronato was 3 years old, she would regularly quiz her mother about which half of her was white and which was Japanese. "I thought there was a physical line that divided the Japanese me from the Caucasian me," says Ferronato, now 18 and a high school senior. A soccer goalie who plays the violin and has her eye on pre-med studies, Ferronato says her racial identity developed in stages. At her mostly white elementary school, she considered herself a white person "who happened to eat a lot of sticky rice." But in the ninth grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to America's Most Diverse City | 8/25/2002 | See Source »

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